Jeremiah Tolbert

Here are some free online read­ing rec­om­men­da­tions for the month of January.  I read these over the week­end, try­ing to catch up with my mas­sive back­log of online fiction.

“The Boy Who Followed Lovecraft” by Marc Laidlaw

This story might frus­trate or upset some genre read­ers, but I loved it.  The less I say about why, the more likely it is to be the same for you. 

“In-​​Fall” by Ted Kosmatka

This has some clever use of the strange physics around black holes.  A really nice, short, taut piece, and a great exam­ple of a cer­tain kind of story I really like, one which parades a really shiny idea and doesn’t over­stay its wel­come. And it still has a good emo­tional core.

“A Long Walk Home” by Jay Lake

There was a beau­ti­ful melan­choly feel to this one, with that usual Jay Lake touch of deft world build­ing and lovely lan­guage.  This one echoed in my head for a while after I fin­ished it.

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Otherwise, I’m read­ing In Cold Blood by Joe Abercrombie.  I enjoyed his tril­ogy last year, and this one is no excep­tion.  It does feel a tad long though.  I feel like I should have fin­ished it sev­eral days ago. I haven’t picked out what to read next, but I get one more fic­tion novel before I tackle another non­fic­tion text. 

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Tags: marc laidlaw, stories, ted kosmatka